VIDEO: CMA Contracting brings down Liddell power station stacks

Neel Madsen Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

13 June 2026

Power station with chimneys beginning to fall The power station was closed in 2023 after more than 52 years in operation (Image: AGL)


After months of meticulous preparation, CMA Contracting has successfully brought down the two iconic chimney stacks at Liddell power station in Australia’s Hunter Valley region in New South Wales.

The 168-metre high, 7,500-tonne reinforced concrete structures, at the decommissioned coal-fired plant, were demolished using more than 500 kg of high explosives on 26 May.

The demolition involved highly controlled, precision-engineered blasts, with hundreds of individual charges placed into pre-drilled holes to carefully weaken the base of each chimney, according…

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